The Seattle Mariners unveiled a statue of Ichiro Suzuki outside T-Mobile Park, but the bronze bat snapped during the ceremony.
Ichiro and fellow Mariners legends laughed off the mishap, joking about Mariano Rivera's bat-breaking reputation before the statue was quickly repaired.
Suzuki, recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, joins Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez as Mariners immortalized with statues at the ballpark.
With two bat-related statue mishaps, are the Mariners' iconic monuments cursed?
Was the statue's broken bat a random accident or a flaw in modern sculpting techniques?
How did Mariano Rivera react to being humorously blamed by Ichiro for the broken bat?
Does a flawed statue make a sports legend's tribute more human than a perfect monument?
How did the Mariners' PR team turn an embarrassing blunder into a viral marketing success?
Beyond the jokes, what did the artist say about the failure of his work on a public stage?